Chapter 6:
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Sebastion's computer voice broke the silence,
"That's strange."
"What?" Logan asked finally.
"The scanner has seemed to have picked up somethingelse. Let me zoom in."
Sebastion clicked a button. The computer zoomed in on the three dimensional picture of the tiny disk on Max's temple Sebastion stated, "It seems that this mechanism is held in by three pins. Also it seems that the tracking device has been defused. By what I don't know."
"We can answer that one for you," Syl replied, "Cindy, she must have hit it when she kicked Max."
Sebastion asked in what would have been surprise; "Cindy kicked Max?"
Krit answered, "Long story. Is there anythingelse?"
Sebastion answered, "Yes, there also seems to be an intercom that has been placed in her ear. Much like the one that you told me about Logan. You know, the one that was in Zac?"
Logan nodded.
"Shall we begin by removing the tracking mechanism on her temple?"
Krit answered, "yes. Me and Syl can't stay much longer. Manticore has seen us so we had better get going. The sooner you can get that thing out, the sooner we can leave, and the sooner we will be safe and Max on her way to recovery."
Logan nodded once more and replied, "well, lets get started."
"Very well, first we will need to insert this Neo Pin'. It is thin enough to fit into microscopic holes that are in the mechanism."
As he said this, a robotic arm that seemed to be holding something, started near the tracking device. On the computers image the group saw two more tiny little pins shoot out of the bigger one that had now been placed in the middle of the disk.
"Now we will lift it out of her temple."
Once again, as if by command, the robotic arm went to work. Taking out the disk took much longer than they had expected. Five minutes went by. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes later the disk was almost out. But then, just as it was to leave the surface of Max's skin, the pins glowed, and a tiny jolt of electricity was shot into Max's temple. Max started to shake violently, Logan yelled,
"What's happening?!?!"
Sebastion answered, "The tracking device, it seems that it was meant to stay. It is almost out. Shall I continue?"
Syl yelled, "No! Leave it in! Leave it in! It's going to kill her!"
Logan said in a calmer tone that what he felt, "No, keep going, it's almost out."
Sebastion continued. The closer the device got to coming out of Max's head the more electricity it was sending into her brain.
Although the group could not see what was happing from the outside of the scanner, they knew what was happing within the steel tube that Max was being held. For they could see on the computer screen, that not only was she shaking violently, they soon heard her body hitting the inside walls of the scanner.
Sebastion said, "Almost there Got it!"
The shaking stopped. The banging of Max's limp body hitting the sides of the scanner had stopped. Now all they had to do was get the intercom out. That was much easier and quicker. The robotic arm soon held tiny tweezers and merely plucked the intercom out like it was a tiny flea or pesky insect.
It was over.
The machine soon opened, and Max's body came out. She was unconscious as Logan thanked Sebastion and Krit and Syl loaded her into the van. They three of them drove silently to Logan's home. Once there Krit and Syl placed Max in the guestroom and waited with Logan. Hours went by. Krit finally said, v "Syl, we need to get out of here. The longer we stay the more in danger Max and Logan will be in. We are in enemy territory, we have to go."
Syl said while holding her sister's hand, "Alright."
They said their good byes. Syl told Logan that they would be calling everyday to find out how she was doing. Logan agreed and said he would be waiting. Bling had gone home for the night, and had no idea about Max yet. Logan walked back into the guestroom where Max lay peacefully. He had her back. Max was alive. The only problem would be when she awoke. She might not remember him. But that was only a might. It was a 50/50 chance that she would or would not remember him. Logan sat in a chair beside her bed thinking. What had they done to Max? What kind of tortures did she endure to keep her friends names silent? What kind of punishment occurred when she was back to full health? What was life at Manticore like knowing that there was freedom beyond those wire gate fences?
Logan was just about to go to sleep when he heard a muttering. Could it be? Was Max waking up? His questions were answered but not in the way that he had hoped.
"Max? Hey, welcome back." Logan said smiling.
Max looked over at Logan. She asked him, "Who are you?"
